Categories: Crime

Garden Egg Seller Arrested For Raping 10-Year-Old Girl

Operatives of the Bauchi State Police Command have arrested a 23-year-old, garden egg seller, Sanusi Umar for allegedly raping a 10-year-old boy.

The Command, in a statement by the Command’s Police Public Relations Officer, SP Ahmed Wakil, on Wednesday, said the suspect allegedly committed the act on March 28, 2024.

The statement noted that the suspect lured the minor with a Thirty Naira (N30) sweet and asked the victim to accompany him to an isolated area behind the AIB filling station along Kofar Ran in Bauchi metropolis to defecate.

“After the defection, the suspect asked the victim to undress his trouser. He wanted to see whether he cleaned his anus. Upon removing his trousers, the suspect also removed his trousers, grabbed the victim from the back and had carnal knowledge of him”, the statement said.

Wakil further explained that the victim rushed to the manager of the filling station where he raised an alarm that the said suspect had carnal knowledge of him.

“Preliminary investigations revealed that the suspect hails from Jingino village, Gwaram Local Government Area of Jigawa state. He came to Bauchi state about two years ago, hawking garden eggs at AIB filling station along Kofar Ran, Bauchi” the statement added.

SP Mohammed also revealed that the suspect leveraged the unsound mental condition of the victim to perpetrate the crime against him.The victimim of the forced sodomy was rushed to the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University, ATBU, Teaching Hospital, Bauchi alongside the suspect, where different tests were conducted on him to determine his health status, while investigation is still in progress, after which the suspect will be charged to court for prosecution.

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